O’Halloran edges toward Canada dream

EDMUND O’HALLORAN (St Francis College, Rochestown) wants to join his Leevale clubmate, Patrick Maher, at the world junior championships in Canada and yesterday he took another step towards fulfiling his ambition when he got his schools campaign off to a flyer with an emphatic victory in the 110m hurdles at the South Munster Schools championships at the Cork IT Track in Bishopstown.

It was on the same track that Patrick Maher, who will represent Davis College in the schools championships, set a new Irish junior record for the 400m hurdles at 52.14 secs to qualify for the world juniors a few weeks earlier.

Not so long ago, himself and O’Halloran were battling it out in the sprint hurdles.